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1633ref. 72612London: Robert Barker & John Bull Cl. Cotton Robert Young G.M. for the Companie of Stationers 1633 - 1635. All texts bound together in 12mo full red leather stamped in gilt and blind with all page edges gilt. The Holy Bible is a later edition or printing of the King James Version first published in 1611 printed in 6 pt Roman type as are the other 3 texts in double columns with 74 lines each unpaginated as are The Genealogies & Concordance. The Way to True Happiness is 86 pp. and the Book of Psalms is 90 pp. plus 2-page "Table." Concordance headings printed in blackletter type; Psalms include music "with apt notes to sing them withall". Separate title pages for Old and New Testaments Concordance Way to True Happiness and Psalms are present. Genealogies lacks a title page. Robert Barker & John Bull | Cl. Cotton | Robert Young | G.M. for the Companie of Stationers unknown
1867ref. 711New York: American Bible Society 1867. 3/4 cloth. Very Good . 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Folio. 1 872 974 leaves. Printed in raised letters for the blind. Tears to upper margin of front endpapers and edges lightly soiled. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather and black cloth which is worn at edges. A scarce early American edition of its kind. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries several decades before the widespread adoption of Braille printers and educators in France and Britain began developing a variety of tactile reading systems for the visually impaired making independent reading among the blind possible for the first time in history. The results of an important competition at the Royal Society of Arts in Edinburgh in 1832 inspired the American activist Samuel Gridley Howe to research and develop his own embossed reading system for the blind which emerged in 1835 as "Boston Line Type." Drawing upon the methods of James Gall an entrant in the Edinburgh competition Howe created an alphabet of angular raised roman letters that "was said to be far less bulky and therefore less expensive than contemporary European roman-letter systems" PRINTING HISTORY p. 20. With the aid of a $1000 grant from the American Bible Society Howe purchased the first printing press for the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind today the Perkins School for the Blind and produced the country's first complete raised-letter Bible for the American Bible Society in 1842. The present Book of Psalms appears to have been printed with the first complete Howe-ABS Bible retaining the pagination of that production and was published separately with a new title page. ABS had published Selections of Psalms in 1835 and the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind a Psalms and Hymns in 1840 and 1848 this is a very early edition of the Psalms. A rare work. Elizabeth M. Harris IN TOUCH: PRINTING AND WRITING FOR THE BLIND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Smithsonian 1981. Elizabeth M. Harris "Inventing Printing for the Blind" PRINTING HISTORY Vol. VIII No. 2 American Printing History Association 1986 pp. 15-25. "The First Books Embossed in the U.S. for Blind Readers 1833-1880" compiled by the Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind. Bible Resource Center "Translation through Multimedia American Bible Society unknown
1629ref. 27807London: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1629. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary olive morocco 2 gilt outer panels with gilt-stamped lozenge on upper and lower cover ties lost black leather title lanbel a.e.g. Signed on back free-endppaer "Mary Crosse/Mary Crosse/ Her Booke/1678. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for the London Company of Stationers the organization that policed the London print trade. This book bears a near-contemporary ownership inscription by a woman implying that this copy at least was owned personally and used outside of church. Printed for the Company of Stationers unknown books
1629ref. 27807London: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1629. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary olive morocco 2 gilt outer panels with gilt-stamped lozenge on upper and lower cover ties lost black leather title lanbel a.e.g. Signed on back free-endppaer "Mary Crosse/Mary Crosse/ Her Booke/1678. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for the London Company of Stationers the organization that policed the London print trade. This book bears a near-contemporary ownership inscription by a woman implying that this copy at least was owned personally and used outside of church. Printed for the Company of Stationers unknown
1724ref. 000253Paris Antoine Urbain Coustelier 1724
1771ref. 373724Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine for and sold by John Perkins in Union-Street near the market 1771. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. Contemporary calf rebacked. Expert restoration. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. ETSC records only two examples of this issue AAS and NYPL. Evans 11987; ESTC W4709; Welch 1072.27 Printed [by William M'Alpine] for and sold by John Perkins, in Union-Street, near the market unknown books
1771ref. 373724Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine for and sold by John Perkins in Union-Street near the market 1771. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. Contemporary calf rebacked. Expert restoration. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. ETSC records only two examples of this issue AAS and NYPL. Evans 11987; ESTC W4709; Welch 1072.27 Printed [by William M'Alpine] for and sold by John Perkins, in Union-Street, near the market unknown
1727ref. 55069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound. An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover books
1727ref. 55069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound. An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover
1776ref. 1744London: Printed by Richard Hett for the Company of Stationers 1776. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 203 x 123 mm. 236 4 pp. Collation: A-P8 COMPLETE. Contemporary Liverpool binding of full red morocco elaborately gilt; wide gilt border of urns and flowers surrounding a black inlay gilt with the name of the first owner: "William Pole Esqr. / Mayor 1778." Marbled pastedowns and endpapers a.e.g. Trifle wear to binding extremities. Preserved in a dark brown cloth protective case. AN ELEGANT LIVERPOOL BINDING. While the workshop is still-unnamed twenty examples are known to us including two bindings that were bound for two different Liverpool Lord Mayors. ¶ 1. Psalms London 1778 -- bound for Robert Landor Church Warden of St. Paul's Church 1782 --> now Boston Athenaeum ¶ 2. Bible Oxford 1772 -- two volumes -- bound for presentation to Liverpool Mayor John Brown dated 1772 Lathrop Harper Cat. 239 item 101 --> Christie's London 25 June 1997 lot 154 ¶ 3. Bible Cambridge 1768 -- Earls of Derby Knowsley Hall Library Lancashire near Liverpool --> Sale Christie's London 1954 --> now Liverpool University Library Knowsley 705 ¶ 4. Bible Oxford 1772 -- two volumes as above -- Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum PML 12936 ¶ 5. Book of Common Prayer Cambridge 1770 -- Maggs Cat. 966 item 154 ¶ 6. Book of Common Prayer Oxford 1770 bound for presentation to George III -- Maggs Cat. 893 item 111 ¶ 7. Bible London 1767 bound for "MB" i.e. Maria Barclay presented to her in NYC by her son-in-law Col. Stephen Delancy ¶ 8. Book of Common Prayer Oxford 1773 bound for Liverpool attorneys Richard Gerard and James Clemens "Gent. Bailiffs 1773" formerly Alice Welsh Skilling and Raymond Skilling Collection Chicago Illinois sold Leslie Hindman auction 6 Nov 2013 Lot 216 ¶ 9. John Morrison The Advantages of an Alliance with the Great Mogul London 1774 British Library 280e18 ¶ 10. New Version of the Psalms London 1778 -- bound for Thomas Hutton Gent. Bailiff 1781 --> Clive Coates Helperby Hall Yorkshire --> now Richard Linenthal London ¶ 11-13. Three vols. at least from a collection of more than 300 Liverpool related items sold at Bonhams 11 Nov. 2015 lot 67 including Psalm and Common Prayer books bound for John Dixon St. Paul's Church Warden 1781; Thomas Hutton see No. 10 above and Joseph Birch Gent. Bailiffs; Charles Pole Edmund Rigby Gent. Bailiffs 1783 Richard Linenthal kindly drew my attention to this lot ¶ 14. Bible Cambridge 1768 two volumes -- bound for presentation to Liverpool slave trader John Sparling 1731-1800 --> Messrs. Peter Harrington as of 1/2020 ¶ 15. Book of Common Prayer Oxford 1793 early provenance indeterminate Maggs Catalogue 1075 Part II no. 240. NB: in their description Messrs. Maggs state that this binder was also responsible for the example published in their Catalogue 966 no. 191; I do not agree ¶ 16. The present binding executed in 1778 for William Pole Esq. Mayor of Liverpool from 1778-1779 dated 1778. Pole was Collector of Stamp Duties and Agent of the Sun Fire Office a long biographical note appears in pencil on first blank leaf -- subsequently in the library of noted Liverpool bibliophile and philanthropist Rev. Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates 1843-1903 with his armorial bookplate. ¶ 17-18. Bible London 1775 4to. Book of Common Prayer Cambridge 1781 bound with Psalms Cambridge 1785 formerly with Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts. NB: the two volumes were bound by the bespoke workshop using two sets of tools. ¶ 19. Llyfr Wgeddi Gyffredin etc. Cambridge 1770 --> George III crowned initials added now British Library 222g9. ¶ 20. Book of Common Prayer Cambridge 1788 bound in 1791 for Henry Blundess Esq. Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1791-1792 and 1793-1794 with Maggs 4/12/24. The work of an imitator of this binder greatly inferior in technical ability is found on a copy of the 1790 Oxford New Testament in the British Library C108c28 which is reproduced in the BL Bookbindings Database. The names of early Liverpool bookbinders are few but we have located two of them in Gore's 1766 "Liverpool Directory" namely Peter Wright on Bixteth Street and Richard Wright on George Street. The work of the present binder was not within the scope of Ramsden's "Bookbinders of the United Kingdom Outside London 1780-1840. It would appear that the Wrights continued working in Liverpool for some time. According to Ramsden the name Richard Wright appears in the 1777 and 1781 directories and Peter Wright in the 1790 directory. In the 1793 records of burials at Our Lady and St Nicholas Liverpool a certain William Wright is listed as a bookbinder on Sweeting Street. ¶ This edition of the Psalms is scarce: ESTC T206585 lists only 5 copies worldwide none in America. Printed by Richard Hett, for the Company of Stationers hardcover books
1776ref. 1744London: Printed by Richard Hett for the Company of Stationers 1776. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 203 x 123 mm. 236 4 pp. Collation: A-P8 COMPLETE. Contemporary Liverpool binding of full red morocco elaborately gilt; wide gilt border of urns and flowers surrounding a black inlay gilt with the name of the first owner: "William Pole Esqr. / Mayor 1778." Marbled pastedowns and endpapers a.e.g. Trifle wear to binding extremities. Preserved in a dark brown cloth protective case. AN ELEGANT LIVERPOOL BINDING. While the workshop is still-unnamed twenty examples are known to us including two bindings that were bound for two different Liverpool Lord Mayors. ¶ 1. Psalms London 1778 -- bound for Robert Landor Church Warden of St. Paul's Church 1782 --> now Boston Athenaeum ¶ 2. Bible Oxford 1772 -- two volumes -- bound for presentation to Liverpool Mayor John Brown dated 1772 Lathrop Harper Cat. 239 item 101 --> Christie's London 25 June 1997 lot 154 ¶ 3. Bible Cambridge 1768 -- Earls of Derby Knowsley Hall Library Lancashire near Liverpool --> Sale Christie's London 1954 --> now Liverpool University Library Knowsley 705 ¶ 4. Bible Oxford 1772 -- two volumes as above -- Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum PML 12936 ¶ 5. Book of Common Prayer Cambridge 1770 -- Maggs Cat. 966 item 154 ¶ 6. Book of Common Prayer Oxford 1770 bound for presentation to George III -- Maggs Cat. 893 item 111 ¶ 7. Bible London 1767 bound for "MB" i.e. Maria Barclay presented to her in NYC by her son-in-law Col. Stephen Delancy ¶ 8. Book of Common Prayer Oxford 1773 bound for Liverpool attorneys Richard Gerard and James Clemens "Gent. Bailiffs 1773" formerly Alice Welsh Skilling and Raymond Skilling Collection Chicago Illinois sold Leslie Hindman auction 6 Nov 2013 Lot 216 ¶ 9. John Morrison The Advantages of an Alliance with the Great Mogul London 1774 British Library 280e18 ¶ 10. New Version of the Psalms London 1778 -- bound for Thomas Hutton Gent. Bailiff 1781 --> Clive Coates Helperby Hall Yorkshire --> now Richard Linenthal London ¶ 11-13. Three vols. at least from a collection of more than 300 Liverpool related items sold at Bonhams 11 Nov. 2015 lot 67 including Psalm and Common Prayer books bound for John Dixon St. Paul's Church Warden 1781; Thomas Hutton see No. 10 above and Joseph Birch Gent. Bailiffs; Charles Pole Edmund Rigby Gent. Bailiffs 1783 Richard Linenthal kindly drew my attention to this lot ¶ 14. Bible Cambridge 1768 two volumes -- bound for presentation to Liverpool slave trader John Sparling 1731-1800 --> Messrs. Peter Harrington as of 1/2020 ¶ 15. Book of Common Prayer Oxford 1793 early provenance indeterminate Maggs Catalogue 1075 Part II no. 240. NB: in their description Messrs. Maggs state that this binder was also responsible for the example published in their Catalogue 966 no. 191; I do not agree ¶ 16. The present binding executed in 1778 for William Pole Esq. Mayor of Liverpool from 1778-1779 dated 1778. Pole was Collector of Stamp Duties and Agent of the Sun Fire Office a long biographical note appears in pencil on first blank leaf -- subsequently in the library of noted Liverpool bibliophile and philanthropist Rev. Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates 1843-1903 with his armorial bookplate. ¶ 17-18. Bible London 1775 4to. Book of Common Prayer Cambridge 1781 bound with Psalms Cambridge 1785 formerly with Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts. NB: the two volumes were bound by the bespoke workshop using two sets of tools. ¶ 19. Llyfr Wgeddi Gyffredin etc. Cambridge 1770 --> George III crowned initials added now British Library 222g9. ¶ 20. Book of Common Prayer Cambridge 1788 bound in 1791 for Henry Blundess Esq. Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1791-1792 and 1793-1794 with Maggs 4/12/24. The work of an imitator of this binder greatly inferior in technical ability is found on a copy of the 1790 Oxford New Testament in the British Library C108c28 which is reproduced in the BL Bookbindings Database. The names of early Liverpool bookbinders are few but we have located two of them in Gore's 1766 "Liverpool Directory" namely Peter Wright on Bixteth Street and Richard Wright on George Street. The work of the present binder was not within the scope of Ramsden's "Bookbinders of the United Kingdom Outside London 1780-1840. It would appear that the Wrights continued working in Liverpool for some time. According to Ramsden the name Richard Wright appears in the 1777 and 1781 directories and Peter Wright in the 1790 directory. In the 1793 records of burials at Our Lady and St Nicholas Liverpool a certain William Wright is listed as a bookbinder on Sweeting Street. ¶ This edition of the Psalms is scarce: ESTC T206585 lists only 5 copies worldwide none in America. Printed by Richard Hett, for the Company of Stationers hardcover
ref. 122179Leiden Plantin Press 1595. . 24mo 12.5 x 8 cm; later vellum binding some browning but otherwise clean pages; text in Hebrew 126 ll. Scarce early edition of the Book of Psalms vocalised and with cantillation. Every fifth verse indicated with a letter. Ginzei Yisrael 1850; Vinograd Leiden 15. Leiden, Plantin Press, 1595. hardcover
ref. 124312London Printed by John Field 1648. . 4to 24 x 18 cm; without the Apocrypha engraved general title slightly cropped at foot of engraved area with the sculpture's signature just cut through and re-margined later inscriptions in pen to margins letterpress NT title text block toned with some damp-staining to gutter margin of first 6 quires occasional spotting; 17th century dark brown goatskin the covers panelled in gilt with filets and a roll between the panels tooled in blind with fern fronds adorned with engraved-silver centre and corner pieces and clasps in full working order the upper centrepiece with monogram 'AA' the lower with engraved armorial device of three mullets of six points all pierced within a lozenge border rebacked preserving the original gilt spine which has been laid down all edges gilt the lower spine-side corner piece of the lower board loose from fitting a little rubbed overall an excellent example. Finely bound in gilt-panelled brown morocco furnished in silver. The King James Version splendidly preserved in an English Restoration binding of gilt-panelled dark brown morocco furnished in silver with engraved centrepieces bearing the monogram 'AA' and the armorial device of three mullets or six points pierces cornerpieces and clasps in full working order. Binding 'furniture' originally served a functional purpose with bosses and cornerpieces helping to protect the covers from wear and tear and clasps employed to prevent the parchment leaves of manuscript books from warping. The advent of paper and the movement away from wood to pasteboard had largely made these features redundant by the end of the seventeenth century. Instead as here metalwork survived as a decorative feature which enhanced the binding of important devotional works whilst also helping to keep these texts which were more likely to be carried about secure see David Pearson English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 pp26-30. Our example is bound without the Apocrypha. Darlow and Moule note that the Apocrypha in their example no. 469 is possibly supplied from another edition and that a different copy is lacking the Apocrypha. ESTC R37304; Herbert 605; DM 469; Wing B2225A. London, Printed by Joh[n] Field, 1648. unknown
ref. 124311London Printed at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesttie and by the Assignes of John Bill 1632-1633. . Four works in 1 vol.; folio 35.5 x 23.5 cm; engraved general title signed 'Guilielmus Hole' partially burnished out as noted by ESTC with date in imprint altered to read '1633' on the plate engraved NT title dated 1632 full-page woodcut illustration of Adam & Eve to verso of A10 final f. of preliminaries note ff A7-8 with incorrect printed signatures as A6-7 woodcut initials head and tailpieces further illustrated with Speed's genealogies and double-page map of Canaan occasional toning final f. of Psalmes laid down title of Common Prayer affixed via stub Speed map with loss to central portion of design with final f. reinforced to verso at gutter margin and tape repair to margin A1 of Old Testament with closed tear crudely repaired lower margin of Adam & Eve woodcut with tape repair not affecting design some further closed repairs throughout later endpapers; contemporary calf gilt lozenge device to covers bisecting the initials 'I' and 'E' gilt faded upper brass clasp in working order remnants of the lower clasp joints and corners expertly restored very good. A very well preserved folio edition of the King James Bible complete in the original clasped calfskin binding with Speed's Genealogies including his double-page engraved map of Canaan The Book of Common Prayer and Sternhold & Hopkins' Psalmes. The elaborate title border is that engraved by William Hole d.1624 which had been used before in the folio Geneva Bible of 1607. 'As a copperplate-engraver Hole remained a specialist in engraving maps music and lettering. and he stands at the head of the seventeenth-century tradition of engravers who worked for writing-masters. He engraved the plates to Martin Billingsley's The Pens Excellencie or The Secretaries Delighte of 1618 the first important English engraved copybook dedicated to Charles as Prince of Wales and he was also responsible for the first engraved plates of music made outside Italy: the famous Parthenia of 161213 which contained music by William Byrd John Bull and Orlando Gibbons and Angelo Notari's Prime musiche nuove of 1613' ODNB. Our example a variant with the date in the imprint of the engraved general title altered on the plate to read '1633'. ESTC S122379 variant; Herbert 466; DM 359. London, Printed at London by Robert Barker, Printer to [the] Kings most excellent Ma[jes]ttie and by the Assignes of John Bill, unknown
1518ref. 371799Cologne: Johann Soter 1518. Title within woodcut borders. Text in double columns in Latin Amharic not Chaldaean Greek and Hebrew types across double page spreads. Collation: a-y6 ç6 &6 ¶4 -&6 blank. 147 ff. 1 vols. 4to. Twentieth century red morocco and cloth. Some traces of rubbing to joints. GTS bookplate stamps on first and last leaves. Very good plus. Title within woodcut borders. Text in double columns in Latin Amharic not Chaldaean Greek and Hebrew types across double page spreads. Collation: a-y6 ç6 &6 ¶4 -&6 blank. 147 ff. 1 vols. 4to. The third polyglot Psalter edited by Johannes Potken who had edited an Ethiopic Psalter in 1513. The work is preceded only by the Genoa Psalter 1516 and the Complutensian Bible printed 1514-1517 but not published until 1522. The Introductiunculae in tres linguas externas: Hebraeam Graecam Chaldaeam sic introduction to three languages Greek Hebrew and Chaldaean i.e. Ethiopic is bound after the main text. Preserving an early binder's blank marked Duplum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis with ink inscription beneath The General Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U States new York 10 December 1826 gift of John Pintard. This marks it as one of the earliest books donated to the newly established library. Pintard 1759-1844 was a prominent New Yorker of Huguenot origin patron of education and one of the earliest and staunchest advocates for the preservation and study of the history of New York and the United States. Pintard began to work towards the establishment of a historical society in the city in early 1804 and he was the leader in the organization of the New-York Historical Society in November 1804. He was also a patron of the old French Huguenot Church of St. Esprit and the General Theological Seminary. Important and early work. Darlow & Moule 1413; VD16 B 3101; Adams B-1371; Vinograd Cologne 1; D.S. Berkowitz In Remembrance of Creation 1968 no. 175; Fumagalli G. Bibliografia etiopica 1243 [Johann Soter] unknown books
1518ref. 371799Cologne: Johann Soter 1518. Title within woodcut borders. Text in double columns in Latin Amharic not Chaldaean Greek and Hebrew types across double page spreads. Collation: a-y6 ç6 &6 ¶4 -&6 blank. 147 ff. 1 vols. 4to. Twentieth century red morocco and cloth. Some traces of rubbing to joints. GTS bookplate stamps on first and last leaves. Very good plus. Title within woodcut borders. Text in double columns in Latin Amharic not Chaldaean Greek and Hebrew types across double page spreads. Collation: a-y6 ç6 &6 ¶4 -&6 blank. 147 ff. 1 vols. 4to. The third polyglot Psalter edited by Johannes Potken who had edited an Ethiopic Psalter in 1513. The work is preceded only by the Genoa Psalter 1516 and the Complutensian Bible printed 1514-1517 but not published until 1522. The Introductiunculae in tres linguas externas: Hebraeam Graecam Chaldaeam sic introduction to three languages Greek Hebrew and Chaldaean i.e. Ethiopic is bound after the main text. Preserving an early binder's blank marked Duplum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis with ink inscription beneath The General Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U States new York 10 December 1826 gift of John Pintard. This marks it as one of the earliest books donated to the newly established library. Pintard 1759-1844 was a prominent New Yorker of Huguenot origin patron of education and one of the earliest and staunchest advocates for the preservation and study of the history of New York and the United States. Pintard began to work towards the establishment of a historical society in the city in early 1804 and he was the leader in the organization of the New-York Historical Society in November 1804. He was also a patron of the old French Huguenot Church of St. Esprit and the General Theological Seminary. Important and early work. Darlow & Moule 1413; VD16 B 3101; Adams B-1371; Vinograd Cologne 1; D.S. Berkowitz In Remembrance of Creation 1968 no. 175; Fumagalli G. Bibliografia etiopica 1243 [Johann Soter] unknown
1524ref. 12313Bologna: Heirs of B. Hector di Faelli 1524. 18th-century vellum over boards soiled flat spine gilt with gilt-lettered tan and blue morocco labels old gilt blue edges gauffered yellow silk marker. FIRST EDITION: THE FIRST PRINTED LATIN-ITALIAN PSALTER AND THE FIRST NEW ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT TO BE PUBLISHED SINCE NICOLÒ MALERMI'S 1471. The Ferrarese painter and poet Luigi Bigi called Pittorio; 1454-1525 presents each verse of the Latin Vulgate Psalms then paraphrases it in simple Italian. He frequently adds his own short vernacular commentary - from a few words to a few lines - to sharpen the reader's understanding and guide their private meditation. On the title and in the dedication BIGI EXPLICITLY ADDRESSES NON-LATIN LITERATE CONVENTUAL AND LAY WOMEN as well as the broader public. To forestall criticism of his vernacular text he sought and received the approval of the vice-inquisitor of Ferrara Father Domenico da Reggio. This luxury copy has the painted arms of its first owner who had the book block edges colored tooled and gilt. I have found two examples in U.S. libraries. In excellent condition early signature on the title of di Sa Simonetta bookplates of George Dunn Wooley Hall in Wm. Morris' "Golden Type" and of Arrighi Casmellani. ¶La Bibbia. Edizioni del XVI secolo ed. Lumini no. 164; Boillet "La Fortune du 'Psalterio Davitico' de Luigi Pittorio en Italie" in La Bibliofilia 115 2013 621-8; Darlow & Moule Historical Catalogue of the.Holy Scripture 5575n.; Sander Le Livre à figures italien 1018; EDIT16 CNCE 5884. Heirs of B. Hector di Faelli unknown
1586ref. 08537Paris: A. L'Angelier 1586. CONTEMPORARY RICHLY GILT CALF DECORATED IN THE DUODO-STYLE WITH NINETEEN DIFFERENT TOOLS. The outer borders have three double-rules with olive branches trefoils curved rules and a floral roll between. Sewn with S fermés quatrefoils and open circles the central field has twenty ovals each with one of six small tools in it. A single compartment the flat spine presents the same decor but with additional tools its base and crown ruled on the bias; board edges ruled one slightly defective all edges gilt. THICK PAPER COPY. The binding by Clovis Ève adopts the design favored by the Venetian ambassador to Paris Pietro Duodo 1554-1611. The chic S fermé symbolizes love sage seul secret soucieux. Fresh inside and out one lower corner neatly restored. ¶Balsamo & Simonin A. L'Angelier 163; Delaveau & Hillard Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIIe siècle 3417; BnF Enrichissements 1961-1973 1974 1051; Brun Le Livre français illustré 130 & 278 "gravés très délicatement". For similar Duodo-style decor see Nixon's Sixteenth-Century Gold-Tooled Bookbindings 59 and Esmerian's Bibliothèque I 6.VI.1972 59-61 and Hobson & Culot's Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings 68-9. A. L'Angelier unknown
1480ref. 254000Ulm: Johann Zainer 1480. 293 of 296 leaves; lacking first 2 leaves of the Calendar and final blank. •6 ••8 a-x8 y12 z8 A-L8 M3. 1 vols. 8vo; 111 x 90 mm. Bound in 18th-century paper boards with remnant of morocco spine label edges stained red. Spine defective and covers rubbed but binding is sound; several leaves bear stubs at outer edge from former index tabs; first leaf of Psalter extended at inner margin; final two leaves slightly waterstained; some browning and occasional stains; text block seriously trimmed but never into text. Notes on front endpapers and a presentation inscription in 1826 from a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church U.S. In a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise. 293 of 296 leaves; lacking first 2 leaves of the Calendar and final blank. •6 ••8 a-x8 y12 z8 A-L8 M3. 1 vols. 8vo; 111 x 90 mm. Johann Zainer the Elder fl. 1472-93 established the first printing press at Ulm where his first book is dated 1473. This pocket psalter by Zainer is undated; the colophon gives only the printer's name and the city in which it was printed. ISTC gives a conjectural date of around 1480. The book's handy but fragile format a thick octavo that would have been easily portable for late fifteenth-century users doubtless guaranteed a low survival rate. Indeed the few copies which have survived are often incomplete fragments or in poor condition. ISTC gives the following locations: France: Strasbourg BNU imperfect wanting Commune sanctorum; Germany: Bamberg SB; Berlin SB; Fulda HLB; Leipzig DB/Buch fragment missing; München BSB 2 imperfect; Stuttgart WLB 3; U.S.A: Washington DC Washington Cathedral Library this copy The present copy - the only copy in America - is complete save for the first two leaves of the Calendar and the blank leaf at the end. Goff Suppl. P1041a; H 13475; C 4927; GW M36206; ISTC No.: ip01041500 Johann Zainer unknown books
1480ref. 254000Ulm: Johann Zainer 1480. 293 of 296 leaves; lacking first 2 leaves of the Calendar and final blank. •6 ••8 a-x8 y12 z8 A-L8 M3. 1 vols. 8vo; 111 x 90 mm. Bound in 18th-century paper boards with remnant of morocco spine label edges stained red. Spine defective and covers rubbed but binding is sound; several leaves bear stubs at outer edge from former index tabs; first leaf of Psalter extended at inner margin; final two leaves slightly waterstained; some browning and occasional stains; text block seriously trimmed but never into text. Notes on front endpapers and a presentation inscription in 1826 from a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church U.S. In a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise. 293 of 296 leaves; lacking first 2 leaves of the Calendar and final blank. •6 ••8 a-x8 y12 z8 A-L8 M3. 1 vols. 8vo; 111 x 90 mm. Johann Zainer the Elder fl. 1472-93 established the first printing press at Ulm where his first book is dated 1473. This pocket psalter by Zainer is undated; the colophon gives only the printer's name and the city in which it was printed. ISTC gives a conjectural date of around 1480. The book's handy but fragile format a thick octavo that would have been easily portable for late fifteenth-century users doubtless guaranteed a low survival rate. Indeed the few copies which have survived are often incomplete fragments or in poor condition. ISTC gives the following locations: France: Strasbourg BNU imperfect wanting Commune sanctorum; Germany: Bamberg SB; Berlin SB; Fulda HLB; Leipzig DB/Buch fragment missing; München BSB 2 imperfect; Stuttgart WLB 3; U.S.A: Washington DC Washington Cathedral Library this copy The present copy - the only copy in America - is complete save for the first two leaves of the Calendar and the blank leaf at the end. Goff Suppl. P1041a; H 13475; C 4927; GW M36206; ISTC No.: ip01041500 Johann Zainer unknown
1516ref. 371021Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus 1516. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards boards with repeated roll of hound hunter and stag spine with floral tools. Clasps perished early repairs with vellum at lower corners; spine darkened with chip at foot joint starting wormholes to the covers. Toning throughout worm holes throughout but heavier to the preliminary and terminal leaves paper loss not affecting text at the lower outer corners of the first 3 leaves minor dampstaining at the lower corners of most leaves and extending from the top inner margin. Scattered early marginalia. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. The Genoa Psalter also known as the Octaplum or Quadruplex Psalter was the first polyglot psalter to be published and the first polyglot edition of any part of the Bible. Financed by the Oriental language scholar Bishop Agostino Giustiniani and printed in Genoa in 1516 it presents the psalms laid out in eight columns i.e. four per page on double-page spreads: in Hebrew a Latin paraphrase the Vulgate Latin the Septuagint Greek Arabic Chaldean Aramaic a Latin paraphrase and the editor's notes. "A monument of Renaissance typography this Psalter was linguistically the most ambitious work attempted to date and the first Polyglot work ever published. It provides the Psalms in five languages as well as a marginal scholarship based largely on rabbinic sources. The Arabic text is one of the first two texts and the first biblical text ever printed in this language. The Hebrew types used in this book were apparently never used again" B. Sabin Hill Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust The Piermont Morgan Library 1989 no. 18. Notably within a lengthy editor's note to Psalm XIX is what is considered the first printed biography of Christopher Columbus along with a very early description of his voyage. A native son of Genoa Giustiniani presents the discovery of the new world as a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy appropriately glossing verse four of Psalm XIX to include his biography of Columbus: "Their sound is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world." The text of the biography of Columbus written a decade after his death includes a brief account of his childhood and continues at length on his discovery of America. Translated from the Latin it begins: "And so their words have reached unto the ends of the earth at least in our own times in which by the marvelous daring of Christopher Columbus of Genoa almost another world was discovered and joined to the community of Christians. And since Columbus often declared that he was chosen by God so that through him this prophecy would be fulfilled I did not consider it unsuitable to include his life here. Therefore Christopher surnamed Columbus a Genoese by birth . lived in our age and through his own efforts explored more lands and seas in a few months than almost all other mortals had done throughout all previous ages . More swiftly than the Portuguese had done he approached new lands and new peoples and at last penetrated regions unknown before now. The news of this matter quickly reached the King who - both out of rivalry with the Portuguese kings and a desire for such new marvels and glory that might accrue to him and his descendants - after long discussions with Columbus finally ordered two ships to be outfitted. With these Columbus set sail from the Fortunate Islands directing his course slightly off the western line . After many days of sailing they had covered great distances. While the others having lost all hope urged a change in course Columbus persisted asserting by reason and conjecture that continuing but a little longer might lead them to discover continents or islands. Nor was he wrong. On the following dawn they sighted land. From this event immense confidence arose in human minds. Later it was learned that these were islands and observations were made of certain peoples there uncultivated and prone to raids on their neighbors even devouring human flesh like wolves. There were violent encounters yet eventually some of these islanders were brought safely to Spain astonishing and delighting all who saw them because they were at first timid unfamiliar with approach easy to persuade and marveling at everything as new." An important and desirable work from a liturgical linguistic and historical perspective. Adams B1370; BM STC Italian p. 97; Darlow & Moule 1411; Sabin 66468; European Americana 516/4; Harrisse BAV 88; JCB 3 I:64; Smitskamp 236; Roper Early Arabic Printing in Europe in Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution p. 132; Vinograd Genoa 1. Provenance: Cenobii Alois 1570 inscription below title; Bibliotheca Regia Monacensi pencil inscription on the inside front board identifying it as a duplicate; General Theological Seminary ink and blindstamps and other markings Petrus Paulus Porrus unknown books
1516ref. 371021Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus 1516. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards boards with repeated roll of hound hunter and stag spine with floral tools. Clasps perished early repairs with vellum at lower corners; spine darkened with chip at foot joint starting wormholes to the covers. Toning throughout worm holes throughout but heavier to the preliminary and terminal leaves paper loss not affecting text at the lower outer corners of the first 3 leaves minor dampstaining at the lower corners of most leaves and extending from the top inner margin. Scattered early marginalia. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. The Genoa Psalter also known as the Octaplum or Quadruplex Psalter was the first polyglot psalter to be published and the first polyglot edition of any part of the Bible. Financed by the Oriental language scholar Bishop Agostino Giustiniani and printed in Genoa in 1516 it presents the psalms laid out in eight columns i.e. four per page on double-page spreads: in Hebrew a Latin paraphrase the Vulgate Latin the Septuagint Greek Arabic Chaldean Aramaic a Latin paraphrase and the editor's notes. "A monument of Renaissance typography this Psalter was linguistically the most ambitious work attempted to date and the first Polyglot work ever published. It provides the Psalms in five languages as well as a marginal scholarship based largely on rabbinic sources. The Arabic text is one of the first two texts and the first biblical text ever printed in this language. The Hebrew types used in this book were apparently never used again" B. Sabin Hill Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust The Piermont Morgan Library 1989 no. 18. Notably within a lengthy editor's note to Psalm XIX is what is considered the first printed biography of Christopher Columbus along with a very early description of his voyage. A native son of Genoa Giustiniani presents the discovery of the new world as a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy appropriately glossing verse four of Psalm XIX to include his biography of Columbus: "Their sound is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world." The text of the biography of Columbus written a decade after his death includes a brief account of his childhood and continues at length on his discovery of America. Translated from the Latin it begins: "And so their words have reached unto the ends of the earth at least in our own times in which by the marvelous daring of Christopher Columbus of Genoa almost another world was discovered and joined to the community of Christians. And since Columbus often declared that he was chosen by God so that through him this prophecy would be fulfilled I did not consider it unsuitable to include his life here. Therefore Christopher surnamed Columbus a Genoese by birth . lived in our age and through his own efforts explored more lands and seas in a few months than almost all other mortals had done throughout all previous ages . More swiftly than the Portuguese had done he approached new lands and new peoples and at last penetrated regions unknown before now. The news of this matter quickly reached the King who - both out of rivalry with the Portuguese kings and a desire for such new marvels and glory that might accrue to him and his descendants - after long discussions with Columbus finally ordered two ships to be outfitted. With these Columbus set sail from the Fortunate Islands directing his course slightly off the western line . After many days of sailing they had covered great distances. While the others having lost all hope urged a change in course Columbus persisted asserting by reason and conjecture that continuing but a little longer might lead them to discover continents or islands. Nor was he wrong. On the following dawn they sighted land. From this event immense confidence arose in human minds. Later it was learned that these were islands and observations were made of certain peoples there uncultivated and prone to raids on their neighbors even devouring human flesh like wolves. There were violent encounters yet eventually some of these islanders were brought safely to Spain astonishing and delighting all who saw them because they were at first timid unfamiliar with approach easy to persuade and marveling at everything as new." An important and desirable work from a liturgical linguistic and historical perspective. Adams B1370; BM STC Italian p. 97; Darlow & Moule 1411; Sabin 66468; European Americana 516/4; Harrisse BAV 88; JCB 3 I:64; Smitskamp 236; Roper Early Arabic Printing in Europe in Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution p. 132; Vinograd Genoa 1. Provenance: Cenobii Alois 1570 inscription below title; Bibliotheca Regia Monacensi pencil inscription on the inside front board identifying it as a duplicate; General Theological Seminary ink and blindstamps and other markings Petrus Paulus Porrus unknown